Confetti is dropped on revelers at midnight during New Year celebrations in Times Square in New York.
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Fireworks light up the London skyline and Big Ben just after midnight on Tuesday. Thousands of people lined the banks of the River Thames near Parliament in central London to herald the start of 2013.
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Fireworks explode over the ancient Parthenon temple at the Acropolis Hill during the New Year's celebrations.
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A man posed for a photo behind a giant 3-D figure of the numbers 2013 during New Year celebrations in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, early Tuesday.
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Thousands of people flocked to the main business district in Jakarta, Indonesia, to celebrate late Monday.
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Revelers cheer in Times Square for the New Year's Eve celebration. This was the first Times Square countdown in decades without Dick Clark, who died in April.
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NATO troops from the International Security Assistance Force danced at a party in Kabul.
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Confetti flies over New York's Times Square.
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Crowds of people released balloons at midnight at Tokyo's Prince Park Tower.
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In Montevideo, Uruguay, a man threw a bucket of water out a window in the financial district, as workers—and children—threw water and discarded old calendars to mark the last working day of the year.
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Followers of the Afro-Brazilian religion Umbanda launched a boat carrying offerings for Iemanja, the goddess of the sea, into the sea in Praia Vermelha near Rio de Janeiro Monday. At the end of each year, worshipers give thanks to the sea goddess and ask for blessings for the new year.
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Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon, left, and others used a large mallet to ring a giant bell to welcome the new year at Bosingak pavilion in central Seoul.
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About 20 lifeguards marked the end of the year by drinking some bubbly Monday near the famous Chapel Bridge over the frigid Reuss river in Lucerne, Switzerland.
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A man used a torch to create an explosion during a carbide shooting, a Dutch New Year's Eve tradition believed to scare off evil spirits, in Silvolde, Netherlands, Monday.
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A man in costume joined thousands of revelers at the Johannesburg Carnival Monday in South Africa. The annual carnival sees hundreds of floats and thousands of dancers parading through the streets of downtown Johannesburg and eventually over Nelson Mandela Bridge.
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Thousands of runners took part in the 88th Sao Silvestre 15-kilometer race along Paulista Avenue in São Paulo, Brazil, Monday.
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Shinto priests walked in a line on the approach to Meiji Shrine in Tokyo on Monday for the annual end-of-the-year purification ceremony. Millions of Japanese people will visit shrines and temples across the country to celebrate New Year's Day.
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Hundreds of people rushed into the water in Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain, for the traditional San Silvestre swim, which each year on Dec. 31 helps them say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one.
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A vendor arranged firecrackers Monday ahead of New Year celebrations in Manila. The Department of Health urged Filipinos to use alternatives to firecrackers, such as horns and loud music, to reduce firecracker-related injuries in celebration of the New Year festivities.
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Women took up position along Sydney harbor in anticipation of New Year's Eve celebrations Monday.
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A Catholic woman prayed near papers bearing New Year wishes and tied to trees at Myeongdong Catholic Cathedral in Seoul Monday.
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Workers prepared for Myanmar's first public New Year's countdown and fireworks celebration, at Myoma grounds in Yangon on Monday.
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Indian schoolchildren posed Monday in Ahmedabad as they paid homage to a young woman who died after she was raped in New Delhi.
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Father Frost and his granddaughter took part in a New Year's parade in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on Monday. Father Frost is the Slavic culture equivalent of Santa Claus.
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Revelers in Pakistan celebrate the new year in Lahore.
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Italian tourists wearing 2013 glasses pose under umbrellas as they celebrate the beginning of New Year's Day under the rain at Puerta del Sol in Madrid on Dec. 31.
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A Sri Lankan Buddhist holds out flowers under a fountain before praying at the Kelaniya Temple on Dec., 31, 2012, in Kelaniya.
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People pass through security in Times Square in New York, Dec. 31.
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Rita Ravenberg,left, and Elly Purperhart (second right) of the National Federation of African-Surinamese pours sacred water containing herbs and flowers on people from all origins during a New Year's Eve ritual at the Independence Square in Paramaribo, Dec. 31.
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